Fascists in Hollywood cancel popular conservative sitcom Last Man Standing

[Matt 26z]

The sitcom was a threat to libtardism. And after Tim Allen made the rounds sticking up for his conservative beliefs, he has been fired.

This is what real fascism looks like.

Thank God we at least have a Republican government.... for now.

[beerptrol]

^^^Is what retardation looks like^^^^^^^

One of Fox's stations can pick it up if it means that much to the conservatives. But they won't, it's easier and cheaper to fan the flames than to put their money were their mouth is

The show is old and the costs are increasing, plus ABC doesn't own the show!

[Horatio Caine]

Yes, they also canceled another conservative show - Two broke girls. Damn Nazis.

[AndyA]

[Bladewire]

Oh another anonymous fake nic hates America & Hollywood imagine that

WeHatePorn & Matt 26z post the same alt-right anti American propaganda and also create threads that try to divide American society on topics like race, sexuality, etc.

[PR_Glen]

who watches sitcoms anymore anyway?

[Bladewire]

Originally Posted by PR_Glen

who watches sitcoms anymore anyway?

Alt-right foreigners in Eastern Europe paid pennies to post propaganda on GFY? Or Russian trolls who post for free in return from early furlow from their prison sentance?

[MaDalton]

You mean the convicted, coke dealing felon Tim Allan is a conservative idol? Seems appropriate.

[Barry-xlovecam]

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[2MuchMark]

Originally Posted by Matt 26z

The sitcom was a threat to libtardism. And after Tim Allen made the rounds sticking up for his conservative beliefs, he has been fired.

This is what real fascism looks like.

You sir, are an odd one.

Tim Allen wasn't fired as the headline says. The show was canceled.

"Last Man Standing" aired on ABC, but they did not own the show. Instead, ABC licensed each episode from 20th Century Fox, meaning ABC pays 20th for every episode. ABC pays the fee, airs the show, charges for ads, and keeps the profits.

ABC is owned by Disney, and Disney has become very relaxed in the last 10 years. Sure they have shows that dig at Trump (Kimmel, Agents of Shield) but most of the shows do not.

Last Man Standing was a popular show, but personally I didn't find it very funny (It was middle of the road cutsey at best). I tried watching it a few times and its just boring. Watching Tim Allen do his tool-time schtick is boring too, and the rest of the cast is dull in my opinion.

The show itself is old (5 years now). It's geared towards an older, aging audience. ABC already has alot of popular shows. It's entirely possible that they just working making enough ad revenue for the time slot.

To say it was canceled because Allen loves Trump would be COOL (woohoo!) but probably not accurate. Since ABC has to license every airing from 20th Century Fox, its entirely possible that there were other reasons for the canning of this (yawn) show.

[Grapesoda]

Originally Posted by StefanG

You mean the convicted, coke dealing felon Tim Allan is a conservative idol? Seems appropriate.

it seems you would be a bit more apprehensive about free speech, being a German. or is it because you are German that free speech is such a joke to you?

[Grapesoda]

Originally Posted by Grapesoda

it seems you would be a bit more apprehensive about free speech, being a German. or is it because you are German that free speech is such a joke to you?

BTW your fav libby spokesperson, alex Baldwin is a drunk hostile child abuser... go figure

[Grapesoda]

Originally Posted by 2MuchMark

You sir, are an odd one.

Tim Allen wasn't fired as the headline says. The show was canceled.

"Last Man Standing" aired on ABC, but they did not own the show. Instead, ABC licensed each episode from 20th Century Fox, meaning ABC pays 20th for every episode. ABC pays the fee, airs the show, charges for ads, and keeps the profits.

ABC is owned by Disney, and Disney has become very relaxed in the last 10 years. Sure they have shows that dig at Trump (Kimmel, Agents of Shield) but most of the shows do not.

Last Man Standing was a popular show, but personally I didn't find it very funny (It was middle of the road cutsey at best). I tried watching it a few times and its just boring. Watching Tim Allen do his tool-time schtick is boring too, and the rest of the cast is dull in my opinion.

The show itself is old (5 years now). It's geared towards an older, aging audience. ABC already has alot of popular shows. It's entirely possible that they just working making enough ad revenue for the time slot.

To say it was canceled because Allen loves Trump would be COOL (woohoo!) but probably not accurate. Since ABC has to license every airing from 20th Century Fox, its entirely possible that there were other reasons for the canning of this (yawn) show.

you really that obtuse mark? FYI having your show canceled is being fired... what a dope. BTW I thought friends was boring and stupid... look how that turned out... fuck I even turned down working on friends...

[kane]

There are likely more than one reason why this show was canceled. In no particular order:

- The show was likely expensive to make. It was in its 6th season and Tim Allen is a big name so he likely got paid a lot. Successful shows get more and more expensive to make as they go on. Let's not forget Friends was a Top 3 show that got over 20 million viewers every season and even saw a boost in viewers it's last few seasons, but it cost so much to make it just wasn't profitable enough to keep around.

- The ratings weren't as good as they appear. Yes, it was the #2 rated comedy on that channel, but it had an older, less desirable audience. The ratings for ages 18-49 were not that good and taken as a whole the ratings for the show were pretty mediocre.

- American Idol is coming back and will air on ABC. They might have kicked this show to the curb for one that will likely get better ratings with younger viewers and may cost less to produce.

- The show has already passed the 100 episode mark so it can go into syndication. Having another season or two won't add a lot to the bottom line.

- Bob Iger, the head of Disney, is Jewish and he may not have appreciated when Tim Allen went on Jimmy Kimmel and said: "Being a Republican in Hollywood is like like living in 30's Germany."

Was the show canceled because he is conservative? Maybe it played a part, but there were likely many other factors.

To me, it is pretty simple. The show was likely on the bubble as far as being renewed and kept around then Allen compared being a multi-millionaire with a TV show to being a Jew in Nazi Germany. The studio likely wasn't too happy about that and was not looking to do the show or its star any favors.

[Axeman]

Originally Posted by kane

There are likely more than one reason why this show was canceled. In no particular order:

- The show was likely expensive to make. It was in its 6th season and Tim Allen is a big name so he likely got paid a lot. Successful shows get more and more expensive to make as they go on. Let's not forget Friends was a Top 3 show that got over 20 million viewers every season and even saw a boost in viewers it's last few seasons, but it cost so much to make it just wasn't profitable enough to keep around.

- The ratings weren't as good as they appear. Yes, it was the #2 rated comedy on that channel, but it had an older, less desirable audience. The ratings for ages 18-49 were not that good and taken as a whole the ratings for the show were pretty mediocre.

- American Idol is coming back and will air on ABC. They might have kicked this show to the curb for one that will likely get better ratings with younger viewers and may cost less to produce.

- The show has already passed the 100 episode mark so it can go into syndication. Having another season or two won't add a lot to the bottom line.

- Bob Iger, the head of Disney, is Jewish and he may not have appreciated when Tim Allen went on Jimmy Kimmel and said: "Being a Republican in Hollywood is like like living in 30's Germany."

Was the show canceled because he is conservative? Maybe it played a part, but there were likely many other factors.

To me, it is pretty simple. The show was likely on the bubble as far as being renewed and kept around then Allen compared being a multi-millionaire with a TV show to being a Jew in Nazi Germany. The studio likely wasn't too happy about that and was not looking to do the show or its star any favors.

And Fox owns the show, so syndication does nothing for ABC, except give Fox more freedom to lower the per episode cost to them.

That said, I would have kept the show and its solid numbers and found a good ABC owned show to put after it. Hard to get consistent numbers for Friday shows, and that show did it.

[kane]

Originally Posted by Axeman

And Fox owns the show, so syndication does nothing for ABC, except give Fox more freedom to lower the per episode cost to them.

That said, I would have kept the show and its solid numbers and found a good ABC owned show to put after it. Hard to get consistent numbers for Friday shows, and that show did it.

If it were me I would have kept the show too. I might have even started advertising to a more conservative audience in hopes of growing the ratings.

I think this was just one of those shows that was on the bubble and might have been canceled anyway then Tim Allen said the stupid thing he did and that didn't win him or the show any fans in Hollywood.

[Bladewire]

Originally Posted by StefanG

You mean the convicted, coke dealing felon Tim Allan is a conservative idol? Seems appropriate.

I've always been a huge Tim Allen fan i have long time friends IRL that are conservative and a lot like him so his politics don't matter to me. I watched Last Man Standing the first season thinking it would get more energy and be less clunky and I've tried watching periodically since but Tim Allen's spark is fading, his timing was off on delivering the lines and he seems more angry and robotic now than sarcastic & poignant

[Relic]

Originally Posted by Matt 26z

Thank God we at least have a Republican government.... for now.

Thank Smith and Wesson.

[crockett]

[Relic]

Do you really want to go there?

[crockett]

Originally Posted by Relic

Do you really want to go there?

[Bladewire]

Originally Posted by crockett

She was right,
yet again

[Relic]

Originally Posted by Bladewire

You sure do post at the exact times crockett does. Your own patterns are stacking up on you.

[crockett]

Originally Posted by Relic

You sure do post at the exact times crockett does. Your own patterns are stacking up on you.

[Relic]

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